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(No ModeL) GIGAR BLANK.

No. 444,624. U Patented Jan. 13,'1891.

WWA/55555,' /NVENTUR/ VUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY N EILSON ANDERSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO VILIJIAMS. ROVE, OF SAME PLACE.

ClGAR-BLANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,624, dated January13, 1891.

Application filed December 18, 1890. Serial No. 375,055. (No model.)

To all whom may concern.-

Beit known that I, HARRY NEILsoN AN- DERsON, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cigar-Blanks, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention has for its object to provide a cigar-blank which may berolled into a complete cigar by a person not skilled in the manufactureof cigars; and it consists in the improvement which I will now proceedto describe and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a plan view of my improved cigar-blank. Fig. 2represents a section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a viewshowing the same rolled into a cigar.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

In the drawings, d a d represent the leaves of tobacco, which constitutethe body of the cigar, and which are known as the filler. These arepreferably leaves of tobacco cut approximately to the desired length ofthe nished cigar. These leaves are laid substantially flat, one upon theother, and there is a sufficient number of them to give the body of thecigar when rolled a sufficient diameter.

l) represents the binden which is a leaf of tobacco of about the sainelength as the filler and somewhat broader. The binder is foldedlengthwise along the center and incloses the loose leaves of the filler.

cis the Wrapper of the cigar, Which when the blank is rolled upconstitutes the outer filler, thus forming a complete cigar. Vhen in theprocess of rolling the filler and binder are completely rolled, the freeend of the wrapper may be twisted tightly, or it may be secured by gumand the superfluous portions of the leaf cut off.

Havana scraps may he used as a liller, the binder holding them together.

I claim" A cigar-blank consisting of a flat filler composed ofsuperposed i'lat layers, a binder folded as a cover upon the at fillerand covering both sides of the same, and a Wrapper attached at one endto the binder and extending diagonally therefrom, whereby when the blankis rolled into a cigar the wrapper will assume its proper position onthe cigar, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specilication, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 15th dayof December, A. D.1890.

HARRY NEILSON ANDERSON.

"Witnesses:

EWING NV. HAMLEN, C. F. BROWN.

